History Main / SanctuaryOfSolitude

* Hinako's attempt at this [[{{Confessional}} is the event]] that kicks off ''Manga/BitterVirgin'''s plot. Daisuke's sister also sees Sanctuary towards the end of the story.

* Cassidy does this in ''Comicbook/{{Preacher}}''. (And no, it doesn't [[OurVampiresAreDifferent hurt him]], either.)
* In ''ComicBook/ThePunisher'''s Franken-Castle arc Morbius sits alone in [[MonsterTown Monster Metropolis']] church, seemingly to overthink what to do with the Bloodstone in his possession.
* ''Franchise/SpiderMan'' villain ComicBook/{{Venom}}'s origin story: Eddie Brock, down-on-his-luck reporter, [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Venom_origin_in_church.jpg is contemplating suicide in a church]] while Spider-Man is trying to escape from the Symbiote. After he successfully drives it off, it bonds with Eddie, and Venom is born.

* In the very first scene of Creator/JohnWoo's ''Film/TheKiller'' when Sidney Fung meets Ah Jong at the church, he asks if he believes in God. Ah Jong replies in the negative but that he "enjoys the tranquility here," making it clear that the church is a place of peace for him. The church gets blown to hell during the course of the final shootout.

* ''VideoGame/CallOfCthulhuDarkCornersOfTheEarth'': Jack spends some time peacefully in the catacombs under the church.

* ''Film/PhantasmIVOblivion'': The main character rests in a funeral car in the light of candles alone in the desert and enemies do not attack him there. A funeral car is not a monastery but it is a part of a ritual sphere and may be considered a somewhat spiritual thing.

* ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil3Nemesis'': After a particularly hard fight with Nemesis Jill has to take shelter in a chapel to recover from wounds.

* ''VideoGame/LongDark'': In the first episode one can find an abandoned church and take shelter there, warm up, rest and make other necessary preparations for survival.

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* ''Webcomic/WayfarersMoon'': Lily is rather surprised to see Iri joining her as she prays to one of their gods.

TruthInTelevision, obviously, particularly in the case of the hospital chapel. After all, that's why they're ''there''.

* In ''[[Creator/IsaacAsimov Sodom's X - A Song For The End]]'', one of the characters, Parini, sneaks off to the church at night time.

* In ''Literature/WarriorCats'', occasionally a character will visit the Moonstone or Moonpool to commune with the spirits of their ancestors when they are troubled.

* Comicbook/{{Wolverine}} does this in ''WesternAnimation/XMenTheAnimatedSeries'', [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/wolverine_praying.jpg shown here]]. Rogue notices him from the back of the church and her eyes well up with tears.

* Hinako's attempt at this [[{{Confessional}} is the event]] that kicks off ''Manga/BitterVirgin'''s plot. Daisuke's sister also sees Sanctuary towards the end of the story.

* In ''ComicBook/ThePunisher'''s Franken-Castle arc Morbius sits alone in [[MonsterTown Monster Metropolis']] church, seemingly to overthink what to do with the Bloodstone in his possession.

* The Queen Mother (Anne Parillaud) does this in the 1998 film version of ''Film/TheManInTheIronMask''.
* In ''Film/InterviewWithTheVampire'', Louis visits the church on his old plantation. It's a rare case of self-inflicted LastSecondChance.
* Cole in ''Film/TheSixthSense'' is sitting in a church by himself when Bruce Willis goes to talk to him.

* In the very first scene of Creator/JohnWoo's ''Film/TheKiller'' when Sidney Fung meets Ah Jong at the church, he asks if he believes in God. Ah Jong replies in the negative but that he "enjoys the tranquility here," making it clear that the church is a place of peace for him. The church gets blown to hell during the course of the final shootout.

* In ''Film/TheSoundOfMusic'', Maria sits contemplating in the church, and the reverend mother comes and talks to her.

* In ''Film/EasyA'', Olive feels bitter when she enters a confessional and spills out all her insecurities, only to find out later that no one was in the other half of the cell. (Of course, the whole ''point'' of God is that no human can replace Him, so...) The 'solitude' part of the trope is especially important because the bullies victimizing her are mostly religious fundamentalists. Olive correctly anticipated [[{{Hypocrite}} they]] would not be in the church they claim to honor so much.

* Kevin on ''Film/HomeAlone'' is lonely on Christmas night, so he goes to the church to hear the choir sing.

* In ''Film/SchoolTies'', David Greene is a Jew attending a conservative prepatory school on a football scholarship, and one scene has him playing in a game on Rosh Hashanah; afterwards, he is caught in the campus chapel saying his prayers.

* ''WesternAnimation/MoralOrel'' does this quite often.

* Comicbook/{{Wolverine}} does this in ''WesternAnimation/XMen'', [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/wolverine_praying.jpg shown here]]. Rogue notices him from the back of the church and her eyes well up with tears.

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* Played in the creepiest way in ''WesternAnimation/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame'' with Frollo singing "Hellfire".